NASA / Various cameras on spacecrafts

10 photographs of Mars

1969-1980

10 vintage photographs with NASA MSC captions on the versos, two additionally with “This Paper Manufactured By Kodak” watermarks.
Nine measuring 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), one measuring 19.2 x 20.2cm (7.6 x 8in)

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The ten photographs show a range of areas of the surface of Mars to explore where the Viking Lander 1 and 2 would land, and subsequently did land, in 1976.

The first photo shows the debris kicked up by the Viking 1 Lander due to the impact of a protective cover ejected from the spacecraft. This was attached to a scoop at the end of the soil sampler arm and it dug into the Martian surface for the first time on July 28. On the surface, a variety of block sizes, shapes and tones are seen, and some rocks are partially buried.